Biology

Physiology

Mr. Mime has a round, white body with a red spot in the middle. Its light pink arms and legs are connected to its body by red spheres. Mr. Mime has white, five-fingered hands and black feet that curl upward at the end. Mr. Mime has a pink head with red cheeks and a pair of blue horns.

Gender differences

None.

Special abilities

Mr. Mime is able to bring invisible barriers that it mimes into existence. These barriers can repel harsh attacks.

Behavior

Mr. Mime are very prideful of their pantomime acts. Anyone that dares to interrupt a Mr. Mime while it is miming will get slapped silly.

Diet

In the anime

Major appearances

Mr. Mime's first anime appearance was in It's Mr. Mime Time. Ash and his friends were looking for a Mr. Mime to replace another one that was supposed to perform in Stella's circus. Ash originally dressed as one to encourage the old Mr. Mime, soon confusing his mother when a wild Mr. Mime arrived at her house.

Other

Stella had her own, lazy Mr. Mime in It's Mr. Mime Time which had quit obeying her because she was too hard on it. It listened to her once more once it saw how she was willing to protect it from Team Rocket.

In Stage Fight!, a Mr. Mime was part of a showboat stage show along with other Pokémon.

Mr. Mime originally had four fingers on its hands. This was changed to five in Pokémon FireRed and LeafGreen and every game since.

In the Hebrew dub of the anime, Mr. Mime was often confused for a Water-type Pokémon in Israel, as "Mayim" (water) is pronounced very similar to "Mime".

Mr. Mime was the first species with a space in its name, as well as the first one with a period and the first one whose name was more than one word; the space in its name was only reflected in the handheld games starting with Generation III, however. Only in Generation IV was the second such species introduced: its baby form, Mime Jr.

Origin

It appears that it is based on a combination between a clown and a mime - together with a popular pantomime, pretending to be trapped in invisible boxes.

Name origin

Mr. Mime is literally mime with an English male honorific. The assignment of a gendered title has no bearing of its equal male/female gender ratio, as it was named before the gender mechanic was introduced in the games.

Barrierd may be a combination of barrier (referring to the mime trait of 'being trapped' behind invisible walls) and weird or barricade.